Description: Fantasy
role-playing game company that makes a complete line of mythical,
battle-ready miniature figurines

Start-up: $700,000 in
2000

Sales: Projected 2002 sales
between $25 million and $30 million

Never grow up: Weisman is a
self-proclaimed big little kid. That, and raising three boys, has
helped him tremendously. "They quickly pointed out that
everything I had created up until that point was too
complicated," he says.

Knockout figures: WizKids
games are played with fully assembled, painted miniature figures
that sit on top of a "combat dial" players can adjust to
show changes in the characters' status. The original Mage
Knight game was so groundbreaking that collectible card industry
magazine InQuest Gamer had to create a new category for it, the
collectible miniatures game.

Let's make a deal:
Weisman sold his last company to Microsoft and now acts as
Microsoft Games Group creative director. "[Working] at a huge
company while running my entrepreneurial enterprise keeps life
interesting," he says.

Worlds collide: Just in time
for the Spider-Man movie, WizKids licensed the entire catalog of
Marvel characters for its Marvel Infinity Challenge game. The
company has done the same with DC Comics' characters. Weisman
points out, "This is the first time these important fictional
universes will be [compatible]."